Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [vb infin] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England won comfortably enough , as indeed they ought to have done against a team containing 10 players whose ages ranged between 16 and 21 , and one - Madan Lal — who lays claim to being 38 , despite the strong suspicion that ( were he as famous as Nehru ) the Centenary Trophy could just as easily have been named after him . |
| 2 | Nick Simmons , manager of the AA Roadwatch nerve centre at Stanmore , Middlesex , hastily pointed out yesterday that those who drew the short straw for Christmas duty could just as easily have been men . |
| 3 | It is only too easy to forget that there was a time when the fragile flower of Glasgow culture might just as easily have been swept up by the great philistine scaffy man of indifference . |
| 4 | In the photograph on the facing page I have designed an S-shape for Sheen , but it could just as easily have been a J for Joanna , or any of the other letters of the alphabet . |
| 5 | It 's dreadful for them , and it might just as easily have been us . |
| 6 | It could just as easily have been a refused request to come home late or stay the night at a friend 's house . |
| 7 | The Premier could just as easily have been on the slalom — ducking and diving as MPs taunted him over the Exchange Rate Mechanism fiasco . |
| 8 | But it could just as easily have been his wife . |
| 9 | Then he had realised that the originator of the plot could just as easily have been Burun — intending all the time that it should fail — achieving at a stroke the removal of effective opposition , placing Artai in debt to the Merkuts for the security of his throne . |
| 10 | It could just as easily have been me . |
| 11 | If it was , then the theatre score could just as easily have been copied for the first run as for the revival . |
| 12 | She analysed a series of slide talks given at a professional biomedical conference ( it might just as easily have been a meeting of linguists , judging by the examples ) , and classified the hedges . |
| 13 | you know , so the rebellion against him could just as easily have been because he was raised as an Egyptian or that , that the , you know the between monarchism from the past could also have been . |
| 14 | Well of course this process pr could just as easily have been progressed through a full scale review of the structure plan rather than an alteration . |
| 15 | A few sports shirts and a sweater will do ; and they 'll probably not even have been unpacked when you get home . |
| 16 | It could almost certainly not have been done by air power alone . |
| 17 | Its only significant achievements came at the outset , when the Great Powers recognized the legitimacy of de Gaulle 's government and invited France to become a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council — a status which would almost certainly not have been offered , had there been no de Gaulle and no Free France . |
| 18 | ‘ I should have realized at once — that Frenchman who was killed , the same poison must still have been on the skin of his attackers , and it would almost certainly still have been strong enough to affect him as well ! |